An Extraordinary Cure

AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE.

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BISHOP

HALL, speaking of the good offices which angels do to God’s servants, says, “Of this kind was that marvellous cure which was wrought upon a poor cripple, at St. Madern’s in Cornwall; whereof, besides the attestation of many hundreds of the neighbors, I took a strict examination in my last visitation: This man, for sixteen years together, was obliged to walk upon his hands, by reason the sinews of his legs were so contracted. Upon an admonition in his dream, to wash in a certain well, he was suddenly so restored to his limbs that I saw him able to walk and get his own maintenance. The name of this cripple was John Trebble.” And were “many hundreds of the neighbors,” together with Bishop Hall, deceived in so notorious a matter of fact? Or did they all join together to palm such a falsehood on the world? O incredulity! what ridiculous shifts art thou driven to! what absurdities wilt thou not believe, rather than own any extraordinary work of God!